Free Market Health Care Reform Requires Both Refundable Tax Credits and Large Health Savings Accounts
Including Both in an ObamaCare Replacement Will Give Americans More Choices of How to Fund Their Health Insurance This Can Bridge the Divide on the Political Right over How Best to Reform the Tax Treatment of Health Insurance Use Medicaid to Help Pay for the Tax Credits; Use Large Health ...
Refundable Tax Credits or Large Health Savings Accounts? Let’s Do Both
Executive Summary There is a big divide on the political right over the tax treatment of health insurance, a divide that threatens to derail any effort to offer a free-market alternative to ObamaCare. One side of the debate favors refundable tax credits for the purchase of health insurance, while the ...
The Significant Affirmative Action Case Before the U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to re-hear an affirmative action case involving university admissions. Project 21 co-chairman Horace Cooper appeared on Newsmax TV’s “The Hard Line” on September 25 to explain why Abigail Noel Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, et al. is such an important case. The ...
Four ObamaCare Co-Ops Down, 19 To Go
As “Aleister” puts it at the Legal Insurrection blog, “You can’t even keep your new plan.” Another ObamaCare Co-Op is going under: Regulators will shut down Health Republic Insurance of New York, the largest of the nonprofit cooperatives created under the Affordable Care Act, in the latest sign of the ...
New Mexico Insurer Does The ObamaCare 3-Step
The ObamaCare Three-Step is a little dance that insurance companies and insurance regulators will partake of more and more in the next few years on the exchanges. This is how it works: Step 1. Insurer Takes Big Loss On Exchange And Requests Big Premium Hike For Following Year Step 2 ...
Hillary’s Health Care Plan: Make Us Sicker
Yesterday, Hillary Clinton outlined her plans for health care. She focused heavily on prescription drugs. One of her ideas entails forcing pharmaceutical companies that receive federal money to reinvest more of their profits into research and design. There are, of course, no specifics on how much profit they will be ...
The Unforeseen Consequences of Affirmative Action
Project 21, a leader in the promotion of black conservative public policy opinion and activism, recently joined a new legal brief to the U.S. Supreme Court opposing racial preferences in school admissions. SCOTUS is preparing to hear the case of Abigail Noel Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, et ...
Project 21’s McClendon Fights Back Against Sharpton’s Lies
Project 21’s Emery McClendon is coordinating an “All Lives Matter” rally today prior to Rev. Al Sharpton’s appearance in Fort Wayne, IN. On September 18, he told NewsMaxTV host Ed Berliner that the Black Lives Matter movement is largely based on lies. “In order for America to be great ...
America Was Safer Under GWB Than Obama, Says Project 21’s Cooper
Did President George W. Bush keep us safe, as claimed by Gov. Jeb Bush in the recent GOP debate? RT Network host Thom Hartmann and his “Progressive Roundtable” call this claim a lie, but Project 21 co-chairman Horace Cooper believes that Americans are less safe under President Obama than they ...
Affirmative Action Returns to the U.S. Supreme Court; Black Conservatives Join Supreme Court Legal Brief Demanding End to Race-Based University Admissions
Schools Accused of Trampling Constitution for Politically-Correct Diversity Goals U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Same Racial Preferences Case Twice in Almost Two Years Washington, D.C. - Project 21, a leader in the promotion of black conservative public policy opinion and activism, has joined a new legal brief to the U.S ...
ObamaCare Enrollment Falls Short of CBO Predictions
On Tuesday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that 9.9 million people had signed up for insurance on the ObamaCare exchanges. “These numbers are consistent with HHS’s effectuated enrollment target of 9.1 million for the end of 2015,” the press release stated. While it’s true that the Obama ...
Apple CEO Tim Cook Criticized by Justin Danhof on Fox Business
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should be investigating an email from Apple CEO Tim Cook to CNBC’s Jim Cramer under its Fair Disclosure regulations, Free Enterprise Project Director Justin Danhof told Neil Cavuto today on the Fox Business Network. Is it perhaps Cook’s liberal cronyism that has the SEC looking the ...
Project 21 Members Dominate Media Discussions About ‘Black Lives Matter’
Recently the news media has been abuzz with stories about the Black Lives Matter movement and its possible connection to the recent trend of murdered police officers. And right smack in the middle of the media discussions have been several members of our Project 21 black leadership network. This past Friday, ...
Unemployment News a Hollow Victory – About Those Jobs Numbers for August
When the monthly jobs report from the Obama Administration came out last Friday, there was unwarranted celebration at the White House. Any “good” news truly rings hollow – that’s what Project 21 member Derryck Green thinks. Case in point, the labor force participation rate – the number of people who ...
Yes, Obama, Premiums Are Going Up
Back in early Summer when some insurers on the exchanges requested hefty premium hikes for 2016, one lefty pundit counseled, “don’t pay too much attention to scare stories about gigantic increases in Obamacare premiums next year.” One reason, he said was that a “few months from now, the real rate ...
Veterans Health Administration: Over 300,000 Not Served
A new report from the Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General found that as “of September 30, 2014, over 307,000 pending ES [Enrollment System] records were for individuals reported as deceased by the Social Security Administration.” That’s about one-third of those who are the VA’s waiting list. Am I shocked? ...
A Rare Moment of Agreement on Immigration
On August 26, Project 21’s Kevin Martin appeared on the talk show of liberal host Thom Hartmann, who was having his usual fun mocking conservatives. However, on the issue of immigration, we heard a rare response from Hartmann: “I agree with you.” Specifically, Hartmann and Martin were agreeing that comprehensive ...
You Can Rate Anything on the Internet–Anything!
If you thought you could only rate things like hotels, books or plumbers on the internet, well then this screenshot will edify you: One gentleman gave Greensville a really bad review, and, well, he should know: Google isn’t the only place you can rate a prison. Here’s Yelp: Apparently, Pocahontas ...
Three ObamaCare Co-Ops Down, 20 To Go
Under ObamaCare, health Co-Ops—non-profits that provide insurance—are allowed to receive federal grant money to start up operations in the ObamaCare exchanges. There are 23 such Co-Ops. Or, rather, there were. In January, the state insurance regulator of Iowa decided to liquidate CoOportunity Health, which served Iowa and Nebraska. Basically, the ...
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